It often happens that what stares us in the face is the most difficult to perceive.
And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.
There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.
A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.
She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.
She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
Instruments sound sweetest when they are touched softest.
The interests we share as human beings are far more powerful than the forces that drive us apart.
If they ever let me in the ring with him [Cassius Clay], I'm liable to be put away for murder.
I have only been an instrument in the hands of Providence.